2017 NGEE June Nome Trip

hopeful itinerary

6/19 arrive

• get mast from grizzly
• get required items from storage
• get camping stuff

6/20-6/22

• build station at K M64 (go to K sites first depending on bob bolton's availability)

6/23

• resupply in Nome

6/24-26

• visit K sites
  • Level precip bucket
  • download data
  • install HMP's
  • update program
  • SR50a transducers

6/27

• Visit C1

6/28

• Visit teller

6/29

• reinstall radio base in town
• visit Anvil school and anvil mnt sites
• ship everything
• fly out

if we're awesome

• kigluaiks trip

@ Kougraok M64

• • soil pit (fall deployment)
    • soil moisture @ 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 cm bgs
  • soil thermal conductivity @ 10, 20, 30, 40 cm bgs
  • soil temperature @ 10, 20, 30, 40 cm bgs
    • • soil heat flux near base of active layer & plant / soil boundary
    • 1.5m soil temperature profile
    • snow depth @ tripod
    • snow depth away from tripod
    • interval camera
    • 4 component radiation
    • Spectral response sensors: NDVI & PRI up looking and two vegetation communities
    • 1.5m Air temperature, Relative Humidity, & Dew Point Temperature
    • Wind speed and direction at 3m
    • summer precipitation
• @ Teller Bottom
  • send one more program to fix 5cm bgs soil moisture out of range array error

Old Atlas sites:

• @ K2 met
  • tower swap
  • wind, temp rh look good
• @ C1 Grid
  • HMP155 has been changed out here
  • fix MRC portion of program last change we screwed something up and sent the 2011 program with a but rather than the 2012 version.
• @ C2 Blueberry
  • Replace the LW Transmitted cable, will need to bring the whole package from Fairbanks
  • 10meter AT/RH has not worked since 2011
• @anvil school
  • propeller for wind sensor

teller

• measure stream flow
• fix program at tell bottom

bring

• • radios to download K sites remotely if necessary
  • copies of permits?
  • radios for base station (in basement)
  • drill bit for VATP probe
  • zip ties
  • hose clamps
  • TOOL BAGS
  • CABLE BAG
  • putty
  • resistor for VATP
  • fish tape
  • measuring tape
  • anti corrosion goo --(In checked bag)--
  • extra nuts, washers, etc
  • extra ubolts
  • guy wire and findings
  • inReach, sat phone
  • sledge hammer
  • sleeping bag liner?
  • torpedo and circle level
  • CFM100+card
  • field books, pencils, pens sharpies
  • duct tape
  • splicing tape
  • electrical tape
  • BUG SHIRT
  • toughbook and charger (maybe also spare battery?
  • spare sr50a transducers
  • car chargers for computers
  • extendable ladder
  • sandles for river crossing
  • extra battery for phone
  • wires and fittings for battery box, and crimps for connections

todo

• • book housing: campsite? NPS bunkhouse: 1800.471.2352 or go downtown their office is the Sitnasauk building on front street?
  • ship things
  • find all the stuff for tower
  • look@ data bob recently downloaded from teller
  • look at data streaming in on NGEE data
  • which sites need new batteries?
  • replace wire on solar panel?
  • wire up box
  • figure out cross arms
  • Do i need two mux's?
  • make list for bob to look for in UAF storage (trail matt?, hose clamps for tipping bucket, tripod, buy mast if have time, batteries)
  • TA's
  • find other sr50a
  • make sure sr50a SDI address are set
  • get transducer for sr50a
  • safety plan
  • call about mast again - ordered
  • what to do about lack of trailmatt? -rocky enough doesn't matter
  • location? -will pick when there
  • which is the broken old style wind sensor -anvil mountain
  • camera? - not on this trip
  • tubing for barometer
  • put maps on my phone
  • write new program
  • VATP offsets
  • CNR4 resistor?

bob todo list

• geo PDFs
• base radio situation in town
• pipe cutter
• rope come-along

to buy

• Alaska Steel
  • threaded coupler for 1 to 1.25 pipe for Wind sensor
  • cross arms (8ft rad[nurailT], 5 ft tower snow[nurailT], 4,4,5,3 ft far snow[3nurailT], 4,4,3ft tipping[2nurailT], 5 ft far rad
    • 7nurail 1.25 T fittings, 8ft, 3*5ft, 4*4ft, 2*3ft
  • nurail fittings
• campbell
  • 2 new propellers (1 for anvil school, 1 for teller top)
  • 20 SR50a transducers
  • CNR4 desiccant. how many (Teller top, teller bottom, 4 in barrow)?
  • CFM
  • long SR50a cable
• home depot
  • conduit
  • fuse (5V) and holder
  • ring connectors for batteries
  • tennis balls or something to cover pokey objects
    • Rebar protection, found at AIH, sometimes home depot but didn't see anything in May when I was looking
  • rebar/screed stakes
  • guy wire and findings

• metric handheld flow rod
• european terminal strips (white kind)

for camping

• WATER
  • water jug in nome storage
• Tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads
  • Tent is in room 112
  • sleeping pads are in uaf storage
  • sleeping bag are in uaf storage
• Stove
  • propane stove in nome storage
• Food

shipped

on 6/9/17

• tower+hinge
• extendable ladder
• 6 batteries
• 8 nurail 1/25 fittings
• CNR4
• Enclosure
  • CR1000+mux+solar charge controller wired up
  • Barometer, wired + tube
  • 4 big power cables
  • 2 short SR50a cables
  • 2 SR50a mounts
  • Skin temp (cable attached)
  • Decagon sensors (cables attached)
  • 5 Hydraprobes
  • 3 SW12V
  • Tarp
  • Enclosure mounting kit: ubolts, putty, dessicant
  • two battery connector cables with findings already crimped
  • both CNR4 cables
• screed stake
• action packer
  • bob's tool bags
  • chair
  • radios for downloading data from K sites

on 6/12/17

battery box

• spare short pieces of rebar (both widths)
• two SW12V
• 4 dog anchors
• 2 rolls of 100 ft conduit
• 6 tasty bites + 1 rice (buy more rice)
• rad sensor mounts
• 2 new replacement RMYoung props + nuts
• tarp
• pipe wrench
• spare wires
• electrical findings baggie
• spare hoseclamps, ubolts, rebar pipe mounts
• saw
• rebar caps
• wind sensor 1 pipe and reducer for top of tower (screwed in)
• anti corrosion goo

action packer

• rope + come-along
• hmp mount + shield
• tent

Loose

• cross arms
• umbrella
• long drill bit
• grounding poles